Release notes: Ava video security systems 5.6.6

For Avigilon Ava Dome, Avigilon Ava Compact Dome, Avigilon Ava 360, and Avigilon Ava Flex cameras, you can now configure anti-flicker settings to reduce any banding seen due to the frequencies of the building lights impacting the camera sensors.

See: How to: Adjust camera video parameters from Aware

The Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras and Alta Cloud Connectors now call out to *.motorolasolutions.com to check connectivity.

See: Domains and ports used by Alta Aware

The Avigilon Alta products and documentation are being localized using a phased approach. You can now choose your preferred language for the Aware UI, login page, and system-generated emails. Aware now supports English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

See: How to: Manage language preferences in Aware

Avigilon Ava Flex cameras can connect to Aware either using Ethernet, or using a Wi-Fi connection.

See:
How to: Configure Aware deployment settings,
About: Ava Flex power and connection options, and
How to: Manage credentials.

Before adding Avigilon Ava Flex cameras to your deployment, the cameras now show they are powered by lighting the white-light illuminator at a low level.

See: About: Ava Flex adaptive white lighting

In addition to creating rules to notify key personnel when your cameras experience issues such as experiencing an analytics or SD card failure, you can now create rules to notify you when an Avigilon Ava camera enters Recovery mode.

See: How to: Create rules for Camera issues

The concepts of rule activation and rule schedule have been updated. When creating a rule, the schedule contains days of the week and times of day that the rule is active, and separately to this, the whole rule can be activated or deactivated.

See the relevant Create rules for... and How to: Pause a rule topics for more information.

Issue: when adding a new Cloud Connector as a secondary node to an existing Cloud Connector group, it is not automatically upgraded.

Workaround: Either manually upgrade the newly added Cloud Connector, or wait for the next system upgrade before adding devices to the Cloud Connector group. See How to: Claim your Alta Cloud Connector for more information.

Issue: If the Flex LED brightness is turned up, and the camera is placed close to a reflective surface, then the camera may oscillate between day and night mode.

Workaround: Either reposition the camera, or reduce the LED brightness.

Issue: You might observe glitching in Video view if the viewing station includes an Intel(r) Iris(R) Xe GPU, and your browser has Hardware Acceleration enabled.

Workaround: Disable Hardware Acceleration from within Chrome. See Reference: Browsers supported by Aware

Issue: When adding third-party cameras to Aware using the Automatic protocol option, Aware might not be able to successfully add the camera.

Workaround: If a third-party camera fails to be added correctly, try again using the Onvif protocol option.

• Users of the Alta Aware mobile app for Android version 2.9.0 and earlier will hear the audio recorded from Aware 5.0.3 and later at a higher volume than before.
• Users of the Alta Aware mobile app for Android version 2.9.1 and later will hear the audio recorded from Aware 4.9.7 and earlier at a lower volume than before.